As the Reich capital and military centre, Berlin was a major target of Allied air raids. For forced labourers, the air raids meant not only danger, but also the possibility of liberation.<\/p>\n
At the beginning of September, 1943, Allied planes attacked the Berlin electrical industry. During the attack, a house at Grenzstra\u00dfe 16 was hit, which housed female Polish forced labourers. The women worked as unskilled workers at the factory on Ackerstra\u00dfe. 20 young Polish women were killed. It was not until 60 years later that they finally received gravestones and a memorial plaque.<\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-144","station","type-station","status-publish","hentry"],"meta_box":{"id":"304","goto":"At memorial stone, Grenzstra\u00dfe 16","street":"Grenzstra\u00dfe 16","city":"Berlin","zip":"13355","gps":"52.541314,13.377063","directions":"S Humboldthain","picture":{"width":150,"height":150,"file":"2022\/05\/gr-0.jpg","filesize":155857,"sizes":{"medium":{"file":"gr-0-300x200.jpg","width":300,"height":200,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":28023,"url":"https:\/\/zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gr-0-300x200.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"gr-0-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gr-0-150x150.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"gr-0-768x512.jpg","width":768,"height":512,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gr-0-768x512.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"7.1","credit":"","camera":"Canon EOS 500D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1367402010","copyright":"","focal_length":"18","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.008","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]},"ID":"584","name":"gr-0.jpg","path":"\/www\/htdocs\/w0177182\/zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gr-0.jpg","url":"https:\/\/zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gr-0-150x150.jpg","full_url":"https:\/\/zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gr-0.jpg","title":"30401","caption":"[:de]Am Gedenkstein, Grenzstra\u00dfe 16[:en]Am Gedenkstein, Grenzstra\u00dfe 16[:]","description":"","alt":"","srcset":false},"media":[222,223,224,225],"bios":[416],"sources":"\u201cThen the Bombs Fell\u201d: Testimony of Danuta Bartkowiak, 1997, and private photo, Collection of the Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt<\/p>
\u201cGrenzstra\u00dfe after the Air-Raid\u201d: Landesarchiv Berlin<\/p>
\u201cBelated Remembrance\u201d: Private archive Irmer<\/p>
\u201cBlessing of the Graves\u201d: Memories and remembrance Berlin, Lodz. Documentary of a meeting, Berlin 2004, Private archive Irmer<\/p>"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/station"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}